Appealing young upstart Patrick Fugit got his big break playing a character based on a teenage Cameron Crowe in the filmmaker's acclaimed rock feature "Almost Famous" (2000). Making his acting debut in a school production while in the seventh grade, the sandy-haired, blue-eyed young performer pursued an acting career and landed guest roles on episodes of "Promised Land" and "Touched By an Angel" (both CBS) in 1998. That same year he was a meal for hungry insects in the Fox TV-movie "Legion of Fire: Killer Ants". Work in the more mild-mannered "Beyond the Prairie: the True Story of Laura
